• Becoming
  • Author: Michelle Obama
  • Publisher: Crown
  • An intimate, powerful, and inspiring memoir by the former First Lady of the United States

    In a life filled with meaning and accomplishment, Michelle Obama has emerged as one of the most iconic and compelling women of our era. As First Lady of the United States of America - the first African-American to serve in that...
  • Educated: A Memoir
  • Author: Tara Westover
  • Publisher: Random House
  • #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * An unforgettable memoir about a young girl who, kept out of school, leaves her survivalist family and goes on to earn a PhD from Cambridge University

    Book Club Pick for Now Read This, from PBS NewsHour and The New York Times

    "A coming-of-age memoir...
  • Women Rowing North: Navigating...
  • Author: Mary Bray Pipher
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

  • From the New York Times bestselling author of Reviving Ophelia, a guide to wisdom, authenticity, and bliss for women as they age.

    Women growing older contend with ageism, misogyny, and loss. Yet as Mary Pipher shows, most older women are deeply happy and filled with gratitude for the gifts of life....

  • From the Ground Up: A Journey to Reimagine...
  • Author: Howard Schultz
  • Publisher: Random House
  • From the #1 bestselling author and former Starbucks CEO, here is a story that is part dramatic memoir, part blueprint of the new responsibilities that leaders and citizens share in America today. The book weaves two parallel narratives to show how experiences from Howard Schultz's troubled childhood - some of which...
  • Figuring
  • Author: Maria Popova
  • Publisher: Pantheon
  • Figuring explores the complexities of love and the human search for truth and meaning through the interconnected lives of several historical figures across four centuries--beginning with the astronomer Johannes Kepler, who discovered the laws of planetary motion, and ending with the marine biologist and author Rachel Carson,...
  • The First Conspiracy: The Secret...
  • Author: Brad Meltzer
  • Publisher: Flatiron Books

  • Taking place during the most critical period of our nation's birth, The First Conspiracy tells a remarkable and previously untold piece of American history that not only reveals George Washington's character, but also illuminates the origins of America's counterintelligence movement that led to the modern day CIA.

    In...

  • Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon...
  • Author: John Carreyrou
  • Publisher: Knopf
  • "Chilling ... Reads like a West Coast version of All the President's Men." - The New York Times Book ReviewThe full inside story of the breathtaking rise and shocking collapse of Theranos, the multibillion-dollar biotech startup, by the prize-winning journalist who first broke the story and pursued it to the end,...
  • The Unwinding of the Miracle: A Memoir...
  • Author: Julie Yip-Williams
  • Publisher: Random House
  • As a young mother facing a terminal diagnosis, Julie Yip-Williams began to write her story, a story like no other. What began as the chronicle of an imminent and early death became something much more - a powerful exhortation to the living.

    That Julie Yip-Williams survived infancy was a miracle. Born blind in Vietnam,...
  • The Library Book
  • Author: SUSAN ORLEAN
  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster
  • Susan Orlean, hailed as a "national treasure" by The Washington Post and the acclaimed bestselling author of Rin Tin Tin and The Orchid Thief, reopens the unsolved mystery of the most catastrophic library fire in American history, and delivers a dazzling love letter to a beloved institution...
  • Let Me Finish: Trump, the Kushners,...
  • Author: Chris Christie
  • Publisher: Hachette Books
  • From the outspoken former governor, presidential candidate, and chair of the Trump transition, a no-holds-barred account of Christie's years atop the national political scene--his rise to power through the bare-knuckle politics of New Jersey, his fifteen-year friendship with Donald Trump, and his frank insights and experiences...
  • The Truths We Hold: An American...
  • Author: KAMALA HARRIS
  • Publisher: Penguin Press
  • From one of America's most inspiring political leaders, a book about the core truths that unite us, and the long struggle to discern what those truths are and how best to act upon them, in her own life and across the life of our country.

    Senator Kamala Harris's commitment to speaking truth is informed by her upbringing....
  • Team of Vipers: My 500 Extraordinary...
  • Author: Cliff Sims
  • Publisher: Thomas Dunne Books
  • The first honest insider's account of the Trump administration. After standing at Donald Trump's side on Election Night, Cliff Sims joined him in the West Wing as Special Assistant to the President and Director of White House Message Strategy.He soon found himself pulled into the President's inner circle as a confidante,...
  • Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's...
  • Author: Stephanie Land
  • Publisher: Hachette Books
  • Evicted meets Nickel and Dimed in Stephanie Land's memoir about working as a maid, a beautiful and gritty exploration of poverty in America. Includes a foreword by Barbara Ehrenreich.

    "My daughter learned to walk in a homeless shelter."

    While the gap between upper middle-class Americans...
  • The Point of It All: A Lifetime...
  • Author: Charles Krauthammer
  • Publisher: Crown Forum
  • Created and compiled by Charles Krauthammer before his death, The Point of It All is an intimate collection of the influential columnist's most important works. Spanning the personal, political and philosophical - including never-before-published speeches and a major new essay about the effect of today's populist...
  • Zucked: The Education of an Unlikely...
  • Author: Roger McNamee
  • Publisher: Penguin Press
  • The story of how a noted tech venture capitalist, an early mentor to Mark Zuckerberg and investor in his company, woke up to the serious damage Facebook was doing to our society and set out to try to stop it.

    If you had told Roger McNamee even three years ago that he would soon be devoting himself to stopping Facebook...